Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Since I had such a good time decorating for Fall last week I thought I do a little more this weekend. I've seen a lot of these crocheted pillows around this season and liked them a lot, but as usual I wasn't digging the prices.

I hit up my local thrift store and found this sweater instead. It was only $3 and in really good shape.

I still had the sewing machine out from when I was making Con-Man's costume, so I got started right away. I used my existing pillows as a guide to make a pillow cover out of the sweater. I simply laid the pillow inside the sweater and cut around the edges of the pillow.

Then I pinned it and sewed it up! Pretty simple.

Since I want it to be a slip cover I can take off for the spring I didn't sew it completely closed, only loosley hand stiched the opening shut.

Finished! This doesn't take to long and makes a big difference from the spring green I had before.

I was hoping to make at least 2 covers out of the one sweater but there wasn't quite enough fabric for both my pillows. So I'll have to do some more searching and find a second sweater similar to the first one I found.

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I like how the green comes out through the design of the sweater. Iron Crafters current challenge is sweaters. If you like to enter challenges you should check it out (through Fireflies and Jellybeans I think). If you go to my blog, http://lilisbuzz.blogspot.com/2010/09/mod-podge-office-organizers.html I have their link there.

It's so great how Pottery Barn was inspired by the patterns from traditional Aran Sweater pattern stitches, then probably hired some crochet or knitter to design the pillow... And then you took a super awesome shortcut and went from Sweater to Instant Pillow. This is such a great idea. I'm currently crocheting a pillow, but may be I can match up some coordinating ones with some thrifted sweaters I have!